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Weekend Preview 12/04/09

Friday, December 4th, 2009

Flat, dragstrip courses are notorious for drafting, and when it’s in the US or Europe people tend to notice. Tucked away in the most isolated Ironman location in the world though is one of the flattest fastest courses there is, Ironman Western Australia, Busselton, the next race coming up this weekend.

We don’t think it needs [...]

Andrew Starykowicz talks to SNTD

Saturday, November 28th, 2009

Andrew Starykowicz has a record that speaks volumes about his biking ability. When he qualified for Clearwater 70.3 world championships at Steelhead 70.3 he rode 8 minutes in to Keiren Doe and Andy Potts and following that he rode 30sec in to Matty Reed at the US Open in Dalas. In 2009, for the [...]

Top10 bike splits at Clearwater tell it all!

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

At the finish line in Clearwater Greg Welsh asked the 2008 70.3 world champion, Terenzo Bozzone,  if the race was ‘clean’ and he replied; I wouldn’t say it was clean. . . if there are that many guys around that can hold 28mph the sport is really going places.
Well that’s what we thought so we [...]

Could WTC licences record drafting points?

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

WTC has announced it’s plans to introduce a PRO registration scheme.
Officially this is to compliment their new anti-doping program and to improve the quality of competition, unofficially I have my own ideas.
Simultaneously however they have raised the bar for Kona qualification to within 5% of the winners time and for prize money to 8%. This [...]